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Table 7 Complications occurred during NPWT

From: The concept of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) after poststernotomy mediastinitis – a single center experience with 54 patients

Complication

Number/

Percent

Instable sternum

1

1.9

Infection other than Mediastinitis

2

3.7

Respiratory failure

4

7.4

Atrial fibrillation

5

9.3

Re-Thoracotomy

1

1.9

Rupture of the right ventricle

1

1.9

No complication

40

74.1